The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.

Jesus replied, “The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and do so correctly, for that is what I am.

“I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener.

Now this happened to fulfill the word that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without reason.’

So the commanding officer came and asked Paul, “Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?” He replied, “Yes.”

So the king got up, and with him the governor and Bernice and those sitting with them,

therefore you who teach someone else, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?

For the death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God.

For I do not do the good I want, but I do the very evil I do not want!

So then, the one who marries his own virgin does well, but the one who does not, does better.

So by your knowledge the weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed.

And there are different results, but the same God who produces all of them in everyone.

Like the one made of dust, so too are those made of dust, and like the one from heaven, so too those who are heavenly.

For if I make you sad, who would be left to make me glad but the one I caused to be sad?

Now the one who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment.

But God, who encourages the downhearted, encouraged us by the arrival of Titus.

as it is written: “The one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little.”

My point is this: The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows generously will also reap generously.

For it is not the person who commends himself who is approved, but the person the Lord commends.